I’m a former MAGA educator and I agree wholeheartedly. I worked with some genuinely good people, for the record, but I worked with a lot more who were loud and proud communists, gender-fluids, antifa and Black Lives Matter protestors- the list goes on. To be a conservative (or, God forbid, a TRUMPER) was taboo.
One thing I seethed at was one of the gender-fluid people having creepy gender stuff on the windows of its classroom (and the classroom was in a main area; you couldn’t miss it). Comparatively, I kept a small Catholic area by my desk. Don’t get the wrong idea, I didn’t do it in response to the gender stuff- mine was actually first. But if I was as loud and proud, I probably would’ve been written up. That’s the society we live in now.
If there’s something I learned as an educator it’s this: I loved my field, and that’s why I wanted to teach. But these teacher who are corrupters use their field to indoctrinate their students according to their worldview. The communist English teacher once had her kids read some story by a trans hispanic lesbian (I can’t explain how that works), and I found out because we had a few students in common.
I left because of a variety of complicated reasons, but the ones I will talk about is that every stereotype about teachers is true: they teach to the test, they pass kids along because of bureaucracy, they’re high schoolers who never left, they couldn’t do anything else- the list goes on. And I guess I technically implicate myself in that, but I realize I’m not those things.
I’m a young guy, but I was still teaching at the beginning of covid, long enough to be called a hero, then long enough to be considered a villain. I was neither of those things. What I was was “done with this”.
I’m a former MAGA educator and I agree wholeheartedly. I worked with some genuinely good people, for the record, but I worked with a lot more who were loud and proud communists, gender-fluids, antifa and Black Lives Matter protestors- the list goes on. To be a conservative (or, God forbid, a TRUMPER) was taboo.
One thing I seethed at was one of the gender-fluid people having creepy gender stuff on the windows of its classroom (and the classroom was in a main area; you couldn’t miss it). Comparatively, I kept a small Catholic area by my desk. Don’t get the wrong idea, I didn’t do it in response to the gender stuff- mine was actually first. But if I was as loud and proud, I probably would’ve been written up. That’s the society we live in now.
If there’s something I learned as an educator it’s this: I loved my field, and that’s why I wanted to teach. But these teacher who are corrupters use their field to indoctrinate their students according to their worldview. The communist English teacher once had her kids read some story by a trans hispanic lesbian (I can’t explain how that works), and I found out because we had a few students in common.
I left because of a variety of complicated reasons, but the ones I will talk about is that every stereotype about teachers is true: they teach to the test, they pass kids along because of bureaucracy, they’re high schoolers who never left, they couldn’t do anything else- the list goes on. And I guess I technically implicate myself in that, but I realize I’m not those things.
I’m a young guy, but I was still teaching at the beginning of covid, long enough to be called a hero, then long enough to be considered a villain. I was neither of those things. What I was was “done with this”.